David Möller
David Möller (born 13 January 1982) is a German luger who has competed since 2001. He won six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with four golds (Men's singles: 2004, 2007; Mixed team: 2004, 2007), one silver (Men's singles: 2008), and one bronze (Men's singles: 2005)
Möller also won four medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with one gold (Mixed team: 2006), one silver (Men's singles: 2004), and two bronzes (Men's singles: 2006, 2008).
He also finished fifth in the men's singles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino and won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver .
Möller's best Luge World Cup overall finish was second three times (2005-6, 2006-7, 2007-8).
On 18 January 2009, Möller suffered a cruciate ligament rupture while training in Oberhof. He underwent surgery for the rupture in Munich at the end of February. Möller underwent physical rehabilitation in early 2009 to prepare for the 2009-10 Luge World Cup and Winter Olympics in Vancouver to which he qualified.
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1989: Italy (Hansjörg Raffl, Gerhard Plankensteiner, Gerda Weissensteiner, Veronika Oberhuber & Norbert Huber) · 1990: East Germany (Jens Müller, Thomas Jacob, Gabriele Kohlisch, Susi Erdmann, Jörg Hoffmann & Jochen Pietzsch) · 1991: Germany (Georg Hackl, Jens Müller, Susi Erdmann, Gabriele Kohlisch, Stefan Krausse & Jan Behrendt) · 1993: Germany (Georg Hackl, René Friedl, Gabriele Kohlisch, Stefan Krausse & Jan Behrendt) · 1995: Germany (Georg Hackl, Jens Müller, Gabriele Kohlisch, Susi Erdmann, Stefan Krausse & Jan Behrendt) · 1996: Austria (Markus Prock, Markus Schmidt, Angelika Neuner, Andrea Tagwerker, Tobias Schiegl & Markus Schiegl) · 1997: Austria (Markus Prock, Gerhard Gleirscher, Andrea Tagwerker, Angelika Neuner, Tobias Schiegl & Markus Schiegl)
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1999: Austria (Markus Prock, Andrea Tagwerker, Tobias Schiegl & Markus Schiegl) · 2000: Germany (Georg Hackl, Silke Kraushaar, Steffen Skel & Steffen Wöller) · 2001: Germany (Georg Hackl, Silke Kraushaar, Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch) · 2003: Germany (Georg Hackl, Sylke Otto, Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch) · 2004: Germany (David Möller, Barbara Niedernhuber, Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch) · 2005: Germany (Georg Hackl, Sylke Otto, André Florschütz & Torsten Wustlich) · 2007: Germany (David Möller, Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch)
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1988: West Germany ( Georg Hackl, Johannes Schettel, Kerstin Langkopf, Veronika Bilgeri, Thomas Schwab & Wolfgang Staudinger) · 1990: East Germany ( Jens Müller, René Friedl, Susi Erdmann, Sylke Otto, Jörg Hoffmann & Jochen Pietzsch) · 1992: Germany ( Georg Hackl, René Friedl, Susi Erdmann, Sylke Otto, Yves Mankel & Thomas Rudolph) · 1994: Italy ( Armin Zöggeler, Norbert Huber, Gerda Weissensteiner, Natalie Obkircher, Kurt Brugger & Wilfried Huber) · 1996: Germany - Jens Müller, Georg Hackl, Jana Bode, Susi Erdmann, Stefan Krauße & Jan Behrendt · 1998: Germany ( Jens Müller, Karsten Albert, Susi Erdmann, Silke Kraushaar, Stefan Krausse & Jan Behrendt)
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Name |
Moller, David |
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Short description |
Luger |
Date of birth |
13 January 1982 |
Place of birth |
Sonneberg, Thuringia |
Date of death |
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